LYING is like playing laser pointer with a kitten.

With very little effort, you can move the red dot anywhere in a flash while, with a lot of effort, the kitten chases after it in futility.

Good people assume that other people in a debate are entering into the discussion "in good faith" (legal term). Liars are not. They understand that the path to power is to exploit your generous assumption about them.

While you are running around defending yourself from their random accusations, and running around trying to bring a cogent argument to their feet, they are laughing at how much of a sucker you are for consuming all the allotted conversational space and time that was needed for you to advance your cause.

You spent all the energy and got nothing. They spent almost no energy and stole the frame.

All lefties understand this because they have been entrained by the media - the media and positions of power are occupied by students of the Frankfurt School and the likes of Saul Alinski who wrote the book "Rules for Radicals". He was Hillary Clinton's mentor.

This is what we saw at the congregational hearing on "voter irregularities" (oh my, how polite is that title). But this is what we have seen all along with these types of people - especially in the last 4 years with "muh Russia" (as Styx puts it). They still pulled out the "muh Russia" card at the hearing.

The scary thing is not that people believe the darting laser pointer lies, the scary thing is that it's an in-joke even amongst regular people who see what's going on, but instead of calling it out, they see the benefits of playing the game and then play along. some may not do it consciously, but they do it automatically - as a learned behavioral pattern.

It's not corrupt politicians or malignant media that is the problem, it is the pandemic of dishonesty that is the problem.